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Hint	Name	% Correct
Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945	Adolf Hitler	92%
Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect	Leonardo da Vinci	92%
Roman general and statesman	Julius Caesar	89%
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule	Mahatma Gandhi	89%
Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas	Christopher Columbus	88%
Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953	Joseph Stalin	88%
Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797	George Washington	86%
Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976	Mao Zedong	86%
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.	Michelangelo	86%
A king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon	Alexander the Great	85%
Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603	Elizabeth I	85%
French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815	Napoleon	85%
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999	Nelson Mandela	85%
Ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy	Socrates	85%
Prolific and influential composer of the Classical period	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	85%
16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865	Abraham Lincoln	83%
Founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan	82%
First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea	Jesus	82%
English musician and activist who was the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	John Lennon	82%
German composer and pianist	Ludwig van Beethoven	82%
Arab religious, military, and political leader and the founder of Islam	Muhammad	82%
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France	Pablo Picasso	82%
Ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition	Plato	82%
German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	81%
Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh	Cleopatra	78%
Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and even in the whole of Chinese poetry	Li Bai	78%
Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity	Marie Curie	78%
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art	Vincent van Gogh	78%
English playwright, poet, and actor	William Shakespeare	78%
Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath	Galileo Galilei	76%
Ancient Greek poet who is widely credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature	Homer	76%
Founder of the Roman Empire who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BCE until his death in 14 CE	Augustus	75%
English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film	Charlie Chaplin	75%
German composer and musician of the late Baroque period	Johann Sebastian Bach	75%
American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist	Louis Armstrong	71%
English musician and actor who was the drummer for an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	Ringo Starr	71%
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath	Aristotle	69%
English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author, and inventor	Isaac Newton	69%
Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor	Nikola Tesla	69%
English musician who was the bassist and keyboardist of, as well as co-lead vocalist for an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	Paul McCartney	69%
Wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism	The Buddha	69%
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology	Charles Darwin	68%
Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages	Confucius	68%
Reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796	Catherine the Great	67%
German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	67%
King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800	Charlemagne	65%
German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar	Martin Luther	65%
Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it	Sigmund Freud	65%
Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire	Simón Bolívar	64%
English musician who was the lead guitarist of an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	George Harrison	63%
German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist	Karl Marx	63%
Patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War	Joan of Arc	61%
American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur	Walt Disney	61%
Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies	Ferdinand Magellan	60%
British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779	James Cook	60%
Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman	Vasco da Gama	60%
Russian writer; wrote a semi-autobiographical trilogy and about their experiences in the Crimean war	Leo Tolstoy	58%
Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center	Nicolaus Copernicus	56%
American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist	Michael Jackson	54%
American inventor and businessman	Thomas Edison	51%
Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment	Adam Smith	47%
Semi-legendary Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the foundational texts of Taoism alongside the Zhuangzi	Laozi	47%
Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman	Rembrandt	47%
French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science	René Descartes	47%
Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily	Archimedes	46%
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization	Louis Pasteur	46%
French Enlightenment writer, philosophe (philosopher), satirist, and historian	Voltaire	44%
Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements	Dmitri Mendeleev	43%
German philosopher; they began their career as a classical philologist	Friedrich Nietzsche	43%
Ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign	Mansa Musa	40%
Italian poet, writer, and philosopher	Dante Alighieri	39%
English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	39%
Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine	Hippocrates	39%
Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists	Miguel de Cervantes	39%
Founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China	Qin Shi Huang	38%
Fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE until his assassination in 661, as well as the first Shia Imam	Ali	36%
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire	Cyrus the Great	36%
Königsberg-born German philosopher; considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment	Immanuel Kant	36%
American industrialist and business magnate	Henry Ford	35%
Ottoman sultan from 1520 till 1566	Suleiman the Magnificent	35%
English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism"	John Locke	33%
Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance	Niccolò Machiavelli	32%
Ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician	Euclid	31%
English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist	Alan Turing	29%
The sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire, reigning from c. 1792 to c. 1750 BCE	Hammurabi	28%
Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia	Timur	28%
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire	Cicero	26%
Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BCE, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy	Herodotus	25%
Third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt	Ramesses II	25%
Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period	Virgil	25%
English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	22%
Swedish biologist and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms	Carl Linnaeus	21%
Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer	Leonhard Euler	21%
Italian Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition.	Thomas Aquinas	19%
Preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world	Avicenna	18%
English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights	Mary Wollstonecraft	17%
Chinese eunuch, admiral, and diplomat from the early Ming dynasty who is often regarded as the greatest admiral in Chinese history	Zheng He	17%
Emperor of Magadha from c. 268 BCE until their death and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty	Ashoka	15%
French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology	Antoine Lavoisier	14%
Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period active as a painter and printmaker	Hokusai	13%
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science	Carl Friedrich Gauss	11%
Third Mughal emperor who reigned from 1556 to 1605	Akbar	10%
Bengali polymath (specifically a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter) of the Bengal Renaissance period	Rabindranath Tagore	10%
Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism, and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon	James Clerk Maxwell	8%
Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic tariqa (brotherhood) known as the Mevlevi Order	Rumi	8%
Mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography	Al-Khwarizmi	4%
Chinese polymath, scientist, and statesman of the Song dynasty (China from 960 to 1279)	Shen Kuo	4%
Arab ulama (scholar), historian, philosopher, and sociologist	Ibn Khaldun	3%
Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period	Murasaki Shikibu	3%
Indian Vedic scholar, philosopher and acharya (teacher) of Advaita Vedanta	Adi Shankara	0%
German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra	Emmy Noether	0%
Logician, mathematician, and philosopher	Kurt Gödel	0%

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